2014-08-14 23:52 from IGnatius T Foobar
Did I mention that my new house has a ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT?

No fireplace, no furnace. Everything is electric. That means no
ashes or soot for me to step in and then track across the carpet.
No carbon footprints.

That, IG, is one of the biggest fallacies in today's world.

So - your *house* is all-electric.
You use electricity brought to your house by the Utility Company, yes?
And just how do you think *they* make "your" electricity?

Now once you get those solar panels, inverters, and a couple of wind turbines
up and running... *then* you might be "zero carbon footprint" and *then* you
can go to all those fancy AlGore dinner parties!!!! <evil grin>

I am enlightened enough to know that "anthropogenic climate change" is a
myth perpetrated by left-wing lobbyists masquerading as "climate scientists."

So the only "carbon footprint" that I care about is whether I'm tracking
ashes and/or soot across the carpet.

Since my house is currently all-electric, there is no possibility of a carbon
footprint. Sometime this fall, however, I will likely be assembling a firepit
in the yard, at which point I will once again have to make sure everyone wipes
their feet before entering the house to make sure they don't track carbon
footprints inside.

As for AlGore -- as I've mentioned before, if he cares so much about carbon
dioxide, he should drop dead so he stops exhaling so much of it.

During my time on Fecesbook (I probably quit for good about two years ago) one thing I noticed was that no matter how many times I set my news feed to chronological order, Fecesbook would regularly be "helpful" about setting it back to "top stories" or whatever. They don't want you to see everything; they want you to see what they consider important.

Google Plus is better. You have fine grained control over what you see and it's presented in chronological order all the time. Promoted crap is shown on a different part of the screen.

Agreed. Just finally deleted FB. Tension like a pack a day smoker while I clicked the links, but now I feel much better having done it. Things are better here, I would have to agree. Our brains, (or more likely my brain), can only track so many connections.

Did you actually submit your request for deletion, or did you just "deactivate"
your account? I found that when I deactivated the account, the temptation
was too great to come back once in a while and see what's going on. Eventually
I deleted the account (which requires several weeks of not returning before
it actually deletes) and I haven't been back since ... and life is good.

I submit that it's probably easier to leave now than it was in 2009 or so,
when it was getting difficult to stay in touch with some people any other
way. "Peak Facebook" is definitely behind us.